Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe

9:4.1There is an in­tel­lec­tual na­ture of the Third Source and Cen­ter that is dis­tinct from his phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual at­tri­butes. Such a na­ture is hardly con­tactable, but it is as­so­cia­ble—in­tel­lec­tu­ally though not per­son­ally. It is dis­tin­guish­able from the phys­i­cal at­tri­butes and the spir­i­tual char­ac­ter of the Third Per­son on mind lev­els of func­tion, but to the dis­cern­ment of per­son­al­i­ties this na­ture never func­tions in­de­pen­dently of phys­i­cal or spir­i­tual man­i­fes­ta­tions.

9:4.2The ab­so­lute mind is the mind of the Third Per­son; it is in­sep­a­ra­ble from the per­son­al­ity of God the Spirit. Mind, in func­tion­ing be­ings, is not sep­a­rated from en­ergy or spirit, or both. Mind is not in­her­ent in en­ergy; en­ergy is re­cep­tive and re­spon­sive to mind; mind can be super­im­posed upon en­ergy, but con­scious­ness is not in­her­ent in the purely ma­te­rial level. Mind does not have to be added to pure spirit, for spirit is in­nately con­scious and iden­ti­fy­ing. Spirit is al­ways in­tel­li­gent, minded in some way. It may be this mind or that mind, it may be pre­mind or super­mind, even spirit mind, but it does the equiv­a­lent of think­ing and know­ing. The in­sight of spirit tran­scends, super­venes, and the­o­ret­i­cally an­te­dates the con­scious­ness of mind.

9:4.3The Con­joint Cre­ator is ab­so­lute only in the do­main of mind, in the realms of uni­ver­sal in­tel­li­gence. The mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter is in­fi­nite; it ut­terly tran­scends the ac­tive and func­tion­ing mind cir­cuits of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The mind en­dow­ment of the seven super­uni­verses is de­rived from the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties of the Con­joint Cre­ator. These Mas­ter Spir­its dis­tribute mind to the grand uni­verse as the cos­mic mind, and your lo­cal uni­verse is per­vaded by the Neb­a­don vari­ant of the Or­von­ton type of cos­mic mind.

9:4.4In­fi­nite mind ig­nores time, ul­ti­mate mind tran­scends time, cos­mic mind is con­di­tioned by time. And so with space: The In­fi­nite Mind is in­de­pen­dent of space, but as de­scent is made from the in­fi­nite to the ad­ju­tant lev­els of mind, in­tel­lect must in­creas­ingly reckon with the fact and lim­i­ta­tions of space.

9:4.5Cos­mic force re­sponds to mind even as cos­mic mind re­sponds to spirit. Spirit is di­vine pur­pose, and spirit mind is di­vine pur­pose in ac­tion. En­ergy is thing, mind is mean­ing, spirit is value. Even in time and space, mind es­tab­lishes those rel­a­tive re­la­tion­ships be­tween en­ergy and spirit which are sug­ges­tive of mu­tual kin­ship in eter­nity.

9:4.6Mind trans­mutes the val­ues of spirit into the mean­ings of in­tel­lect; vo­li­tion has power to bring the mean­ings of mind to fruit in both the ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual do­mains. The Par­a­dise as­cent in­volves a rel­a­tive and dif­fer­en­tial growth in spirit, mind, and en­ergy. The per­son­al­ity is the uni­fier of these com­po­nents of ex­pe­ri­en­tial in­di­vid­u­al­ity.